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tri⋅met⋅ric

[trahy-me-trik]
–adjective
1. pertaining to or consisting of a trimeter or trimeters.
2. Crystallography. orthorhombic.
Also, tri⋅met⋅ri⋅cal.


Origin:
1830–40; trimet(e)r + -ic
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trim·e·ter   (trĭm'ĭ-tər)   
n.  
  1. A line of verse consisting of three metrical feet.

  2. A line of verse consisting of three measures of two feet each, especially one in iambic, trochaic, or anapestic meter in classical prosody.


[Late Latin, from Latin trimetrus, from Greek trimetros : tri-, tri- + metron, measure; see meter1.]
tri·met'ric (trī-mět'rĭk), tri·met'ri·cal (-rĭ-kəl) adj.
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